Poor & Starving is a trade name (or a brand, secret identity, whatever you want to call it) for myself, Niko Bauer. Born in Finland in 1973, moved to the Netherlands in July 2000, moved back to Finland in October 2009, currently living in Tampere, Finland.

The name "Poor & Starving" is of course a joke, this being the old cliche of the situation that a proper artist should find himself in if he or she wants to be taken seriously (after his/her death that is).